A photographer from a well know national magazine was assignedto cover the fires at Yellowstone National Park. The magazinewanted to show some of the heroic work of the fire fighters asthey battled the blaze. When the photographer arrived, he realized that the smoke was sothick that it would seriously impede or make it impossible forhim to photograph anything from ground level. He requestedpermission to rent a plane and take photos from the air. Hisrequest was approved, and arrangements were made. He was told toreport to a nearby airport where a plane would be waiting forhim. He arrived at the airport and saw a plane warming up nearthe gate. He jumped in with his bag and shouted, "Let's go!''The pilot swung the little plane into the wind, and withinminutes they were in the air. The photographer said, "Fly overthe park and make two or three low passes so I can take somepictures." "Why?" asked the pilot. "Because I am a photographer," heresponded, "and photographers make photographs." The pilot was silent for a moment; finally he stammered, "Youmean you're not the flight instructor?"

VERSION UPDATE by Richard Karsmakers

The sixth occurrence of this regular column here (and a rathervery much updated and enhanced one at that): A summary of allcurrent version numbers of specific utility programs and such, asavailable to my knowledge at the time of this issue beingreleased. It has to be noted that the following list is compiled withreliance almost solely on my knowledge, and may therefore indeednot be very up-to-date as my scope of view is only limited. Ihave not based this list on rumours, and therefore the versionnumber listed is that of the latest version actually seen by meor any of my direct acquaintances or trustworthy sources. Versions rumoured to exist will, if any, be mentionedadditionally between round brackets ("-" means "specific versionnumber not known, however" - I would surely appreciateinformation concerning these in that case). A version number between square brackets signifies a version indevelopment, if known. An asterisk (*) before the name willindicate that the entry has changed since the 'versions' articlein the previous issue of ST NEWS, or that it was added since. But let's cut it.

If you know of any higher versions than the ones mentioned here,please do not hesitate to drop me a line (or, even better, quitea few lines). If it concerns Public Domain software, please takethe liberty to send me that particular latest version if you feellike it! Please send anything you care to send to thecorrespondence address, mentioned elsewhere in ST NEWS. If you send a long and interesting letter with it (or IRCsinstead) you'll even get your disk back (probably).

Disclaimer
The text of the articles is identical to the originals like they appeared
in old ST NEWS issues. Please take into consideration that the author(s)
was (were) a lot younger and less responsible back then. So bad jokes,
bad English, youthful arrogance, insults, bravura, over-crediting and
tastelessness should be taken with at least a grain of salt. Any contact
and/or payment information, as well as deadlines/release dates of any
kind should be regarded as outdated. Due to the fact that these pages are
not actually contained in an Atari executable here, references to scroll
texts, featured demo screens and hidden articles may also be irrelevant.